The voices in his head, coupled with helicopter lights and pursuing cops likely "scared the hell out of him," Gilbert Vasquez said.

The chase ended after Beaird slammed his car into an occupied Nissan at the intersection of Olympic Boulevard and Los Angeles Street. The Nissan's passengers were injured but will recover.

With KTLA's cameras still on him, Beaird got out of the mangled vehicle and staggered towards the sidewalk with his back to the police officers. He could be seen raising his hands for a moment before being shot multiple times and collapsing to the ground. (Around 21:10 in the video above.)

Police Chief Charlie Beck said in a radio interview yesterday that preliminary information suggests one officer fired a beanbag round at Beaird before the other officers opened fire.

KTLA's footage appears to confirm this.

"Before an officer discharges a beanbag, the protocol is to loudly state, ‘bean bag ready! Bean bag ready!’ so that everybody knows that the next detonation that they hear is not a gunshot," Beck said at a press conference on Monday, but would neither confirm the deployment of a beanbag nor the protocol's failure.

He did, however, concede that in "the situation as presented in this pursuit, a beanbag would be an option."